For Singapore’s 55th birthday celebration, some of the island’s best chefs have given popular hawker eats a modern reworking
Singapore may be turning 55 years old this year, but one thing hasn’t changed among its citizens—our insatiable love for delicious local food. But with an influx of influences from around the world, the chefs always come up with innovative ways to present the nation’s beloved local fare. Here are some of the best versions that we've seen this year.
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1. The Spot
Executive Chef Lee Boon Seng’s love for Singapore is reflected in his National Day three-course menu, comprising reinvented local dishes. Commence the meal with the all-time favourite Singapore chilli crab “cake”, which sits on a flavoursome ginger flower chilli crab sauce and spruced up with pineapple cucumber and cucumber gelee.
This is followed by your choice of main course—Angus beef short rib satay accompanied by red onion salsa and potato mousseline, or baked "otah" sea bass wrapped in banana leaf and elevated with a piquant roasted green chilli butter sauce. Even the dessert of “ondeh ondeh” kueh lapis, made with layers of pandan sponge and gula melaka, is given a contemporary spin with the addition of coconut lime chantilly. Available for dine-in and takeaway from August 3 to 9.
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